OIL NAVY SHIPS.
. MR. CHURCHILL ATTACKED. NEW CHAPTER IN MAD RIVALRY. By Tolearaph-PreEß A«iotlatlon-OoprrisM London, July 27. Mr. J. Ramsay Mac Donald, Labour M.P. for Leicester, in a letter to the Leicester "Pioneer," accuses Mr. Churchill, First Lord of tho Admiralty, of .committing the Admiralty to a partioular oilfield before anyone knew what was going on. Ho also says Sir.' Churcliill had four oil-driven Dreadnoughts laid down before Cabinet was aware of the fact, and that Mr. Churchill had never sat down for a single hour to think of the possible consequences. (Rec. July 29, 0.5 a.m.) London, July 28. - Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald states that if oil-propelled Dreadnoughts will allow cf a big Navy, people cannot include coalpropelled vessels in their international comparison. "So," he exclaims, "we begin a now chapter in this insane ajid criminal race for armaments, and also," by scrapping the naval coal supply, will throw Aurselves at the mercy of flar-ro-moved foreign sources of oil supply."
A NAVAL LABORATORY. (Sydney "Sun" Special.) London, July 27. The Admiralty is spending ,£40,000 on a laboratory at the Rosyth naval base.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1814, 29 July 1913, Page 5
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183OIL NAVY SHIPS. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1814, 29 July 1913, Page 5
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